Serving God in a migrant crisis

Abstract

There are few more emotive topics in the world today than the subject of migration. It has risen to the top of the world's political agenda as the world's leaders seek to grapple with the massive flows of population from rural to urban life, from country to country and continent to continent. The flows of these waves of migrants are hugely disruptive for the societies involved - the social cost, the cultural changes, the economic pressures and the raw human emotions felt cannot be ignored. Pass laws in apartheid South Africa, fences along the US border with Mexico, navies patrolling the Mediterranean and Pacific have done little to stem the flow. In our globalized world where news is instantly available this is likely to continue through much of the 21st Century.